Metallic heel



R. R. KIRSCH.

METALLIC HEEL.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 24. 1921.

Patented Aug. 15, 1922.

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William rns dearest RAYMOND a. mason, or snizoors, MIsso nr.

METALLIC HEEL.

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To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAYMOND R. KIRsoH, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri,

have invented a new and useful Metallic 'with provision whereby the plate ma b coupled with the metallic heel for holding the same in place on the shoe.

Additional advantages of the construction will be apparent from the following detail description thereof, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a plan view of the heel body with the retaining plate removed.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section through a portion of the shoe showing the construction of the attaching means of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section taken substantially on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4. is a top-plan view of the retaining plate removed.

Fig. 5 is an edge view of the same element.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated in the drawing, the metallic heel body is formed from a hollow casting leaving an open top 1 around the inner edge of which is formed a series of suitably spaced inwardly extending lugs 2. The upper face of the lugs 2 is slightly below the upper edge of the wall of the hollow body. The inner face of these lugs is stepped, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3, forming a shoulder 3. The edge of each of the lugs is undercut along the line of the upper face of the A metallic plate 5, conforming in outer contour to the curve of the heel section of the shoe and being composed preferably of a light spring steel, is provided. This plate constitutes a retaining plate and is designed for directattachment with the bottom surface of the heel portion of the shoe by being nailed thereto, the nails extending through a series of per- Specification of Letters Patent.

out of and depressed -.Patented Aug. 15, 1922.. Application filed March 24.192 L- Serial No. 455,355. I I

forations 6 in the plate, said perforations being disposed at suitable intervals through the plate;

Around the marginal edge of the-plate 5 are a series of down-pressed tongues? cut from-the surfaceof the plate. Thesetongues register formed in the hollow body.

It will be noted that in the originalcondition of the tongues they extend down- With the lugs wardly at anangle slightly less than'a right angle to the under face of the plate, so that the tongues ncline shghtly toward the recesses 4, the extreme being slightly out-turned- This retaining point of the tongues plate'5 is first attached tothe heel portion of the shoe in the manner described. -The heel body is brought into registration-with the plate, so that after the retaining plate has been forced into place, the pl-ate will fit within the upper edge of the heel body, and.

the under face of the plate will rest upon the upper face of the lugs 2;

By exerting pressure over the several tongues on the retaining plate by a-suitable presser element from within the shoe and against the bottom 'thereof, the tongues are forced into the respective recesses 4:, the ends ofthe tongues Lip-turning as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and riveting into the upper wall of said recesses 4. o

The construction provides convenient means for rigidly: attaching the metallic heel body to the shoe. The attachment may be effected with great facility. The

construction also provides a means of attachment or connection between the heel body and the shoe which is neat in appearance, as the upper edge of the heel body will lie in very close proximity to the surface of the heel portion of the shoe, the attaching means being entirely concealed-by the upper edge of the metallic heel body.

I am aware that the invention may be modified in certain particulars without departing from thespirit and scope thereof- I do not restrict myself, therefore, to unessential features. but what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a metallic heel the combination with a hollow metallic heel body having recesses in the upper portion thereof opening inwardly, and shoulders extending inwardly below said recesses, of a metallic retaining plate adapted to be attached to the heel portion of the shoe, andtongues in connection with said heel plate adapted by press ing action against said shoulders to be bent into said recesses.

2. In a metallic heel the combination with a heel body, or lugs extending around the interior of said heel body below the upper edge thereof, and having tongue receiving recesses therein, shoulders extending inwardly below said recesses, a metallic plate adapted tobe attached to the heel portion of the shoe, and tongues carried by said plate adapted by pressing action against said shoulders to be bent into the recesses in said lugs.

3. In a metallic heel the combination with ing around the interior of said heel body below the upper edge thereof, and having tonguereceiving recesses therein, shoulders extending inwardly below said recesses, a

metallic retaining plate adapted to be attached to the heel portion or the shoe, and

tongues carriedby said plate adapted to contact Wltll'tllC-B inner ends of said lugs and adapted by pressing action against said shoulders to be bent into the recesses in said lugs.

41;. In a metallic heel, the combination of a hollow metallic heel body having an opening in the top thereof, a series of lugs spaced at intervals around the inner surface of the -heel body below the top edge thereof, a

metallic retaining plate adapted to be connected with the heel portion of a shoe, said retaining plate having downwardly deflected tongues and arranged to rest upon the upper surface of said lugs, the lugs being provided with recesses for receiving in holding engagement said tongues ofthe retaining plate.

5; In a metallic heel, the'coinbination with a retaining plate having downwardly deflected tongues spaced at intervals around the marginal edge thereof, a metallic heel body having an opening in the top, a series of spaced lugs around the inner surface and adjacent the upper edge of the wall of the heel body, said lugs having under-cut recesses in the inner face thereof, and a guiding shoulder below said recesses, whereby when said heel body is pressed in contact with said retaining plate the tongues 01": the retaining plate will be guided into and be over-turned against the upper wall of the recesses, thereby effecting a holding engagement between the retaining plate and the heel body.

RAYMOND R. KIRSCH. 

